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Winter 2008
Stories
Lessons from Lincoln
What our 16th president can teach us about greatness.
Abraham Lincoln’s career offers timeless lessons in leadership, which are worthy of reflection as the nation prepares to elect a new president and celebrate Lincoln's bicentennial.
An All-American City
Life in East St. Louis reveals how people abandoned in a post-industrial world survive the changes.
Dr. Happy
Science helps uncover the secrets to happiness.
A Surrogate Home in Language
While Poland was occupied, exiled writers preserved the language and the nation's cultural touchstones.
A Classic Rediscovered
The Timaeus—the most influential book you've never heard of.
Life in the Laugh Lane
Comedy writer Larry Doyle is again in demand in Hollywood where making a living from laughs can get you down.
Additional Features
Around the College
- True Feelings: At Some Point, Taking a Chance on Love Means Confiding Your Real Feelings
- Worrywarts: Excessive Worrying Is Unhealthy and Treatable
- The Running of the Roaches: Cockroach Research Could Lead to Better Robots
- Two LAS Professors Make Scientific American Top 50
- Researchers Successfully Simulate Photosynthesis and Design a Better Leaf
- LAS Senior Named Marshall Scholar
- U of I Team Penetrates Staph Defenses
- Lost and Found: Geologists Locate Missing Piece of Earth Under Tibet
- The Fostering Dilemma: Controversial Practice Benefits Some African Children
- Snakes on the Plains! LAS Researchers Track Snakes in Illinois, Texas, and Canada
- The Sun Has Siblings?